prominencen.

Brit.

/ˈprɒmᵻnəns/, U.S.

/ˈprɑmən(ə)ns/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōminentia.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōminentia fact or quality of jutting out, projection, in post-classical Latin also distinction, excellence (1235 in a British source) < prōminent- , prōminēns prominent adj. + -ia -ia suffix¹: see -ence suffix. Compare Middle French, French prominence (a1590; subsequently from the 19th cent.), French proéminence (1755 in sense 2, 1798 in sense 1), Italian prominenza (1598). Compare earlier prominent adj. and later prominent n. Compare also prominency n.

a. The quality or state of being conspicuous; notoriety, eminence, fame; superiority, distinction in a particular field.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence

prominence1533

prominency1650

markedness1846

1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. I.1.^v A laye man promoted to suche prominence by hys graces goodnes.

1715 R. Steele Lover No. 33. 188 The Regularity, Symmetry, Boldness and Prominence of the Figures are not to be described.

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 492 The prophet thereby gives prominence to the seeming contradiction.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 Luther and Calvin..brought into splendid prominence their new ideas of moral order.

1907 Daily Chron. 16 May 3/5 The box-office value of every artist of prominence.

1940 E. Wilson To Finland Station ii. x. 165 Weitling became a member and presently emerged into prominence as the most important German leader of the working class.

1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud iv. 157 Within this group, Wilhelm Reich's rise to prominence was the most swift.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory ix. 889 But other trends, despite their prominence, have never generated even a plausible hypothesis of biomechanical advantage.

b. Phonetics. The degree to which a sound or syllable stands out from its phonetic environment; (also) an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > prominence

prominence1892

1892 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 239 The first [syllable] of the two, being accented, imparts accentual stress and prominence to its own part of the consonant.

1929 I. C. Ward Phonetics of English xiv. 135 The effect of prominence is produced by the very intimate combination of length, stress, pitch, and inherent sonority of sounds.

1950 D. Jones Phoneme 144 It is a natural tendency of English people and speakers of other stress languages to attribute all prominences to stress alone.

1973 Word 1970 26 62 Not every syllable given accentual prominence in the sentence is a rhythmic accent with temporal prominence.

1996 Language 72 328 The relevant prominence rules are: PrR7: A postpausal heavy syllable followed by a syllable which is itself followed by a stressed one is prominent.

a. A prominent thing; a projection, a protuberance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part

hornc1275

outshooting1310

nosec1400

startc1400

spout1412

snouta1425

outbearingc1425

outstanding?c1425

relish1428

jeta1500

rising1525

shoulder1545

jutting1565

outshootc1565

prominence1578

forecast1580

projection1592

sprout1598

eye1600

shooting forth1601

lip1608

juttying1611

prominent?1611

eminence1615

butting1625

excursiona1626

elbow1626

protrusion1646

jettinga1652

outjetting1652

prominency1654

eminency1668

nouch1688

issuanta1690

out-butting1730

outjet1730

out-jutting1730

flange1735

nosing1773

process1775

jut1787

projecture1803

nozzle1804

saliency1831

ajutment1834

salience1837

out-thrust1842

emphasis1885

cleat1887

outjut1893

pseudopodiuma1902

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 8^v Neither not elegantly hath nature erected a Prominence, from that hole, whereby ye brayne is deriued into the spinall marey.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Prominentia,... Also a penthouse, a prominence, by which word the Anatomists vnderstand what portion soeuer doth notably surmount the parts circumiacent in thicknes.

1638 A. Read Man. Anat. v. vii. 546 It hath also two long cavities for the receiving of the two prominences of the thigh bone.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Prominences, bunchings forth, those parts that notably shew themselves above the rest, as a hill in a plain.

1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 319 The Precipices were surprisingly variegated with Apices, Prominences, [etc.].

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §81 The lower end of the shores stepping against some hole or prominence of the rock.

1846 G. N. Wright Cream Sci. Knowl. 61 The art of bronzing consists in painting the substance to be bronzed of a dark-green colour, and then rubbing the prominences with bronze-coloured dust.

1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. vii. 154 Descending into the hollows and mounting over the prominences of the rock.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 14 Oct. 8/2 Reflection of the sternomastoid from the mastoid prominence downward..makes the transverse process of the atlas easily identifiable.

1995 Sci. Amer. Jan. 42/1 The Labrador-Greenland prominence of Laurentia might have originated within the recess in the South American margin between Chile and southern Peru.

b. Astronomy. A major upward eruption of incandescent gas in the sun's corona, classified as either active (short-lived and with a rapidly changing structure) or quiescent (long-lived) (also solar prominence); a similar phenomenon on another star.At first also called a protuberance (protuberance n. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [noun] > solar prominence

streamer1697

solar prominence1852

sun pillar1853

filamenta1869

solar protuberance1869

plume1885

panache1886

1852 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 52 210 After the disappearance of the last direct rays of the sun behind the margin of the moon,..rose-shaped prominences from two to three minutes in height, dart, as it were, from the circumference of our satellite.

1866 Sci. Amer. 30 June 217/2 The appearance in the photographs of the solar eclipse of 1860 of solar prominences invisible to the human eye.

1903 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics 118 Professor Hale's daylight photographs of prominence-spectra.

1940 G. Gamow Birth & Death of Sun i. 8 The features of solar activity most familiar to the general public are the so-called sunspots..and solar prominences, the eruptions of hot and luminous gases that sometimes rise to a height of hundreds of thousands of kilometres above the Sun's surface.

1981 S. Mitton Daytime Star ix. 139 Prominences are usually photographed at the limb of the Sun, where they stand out as flame-like structures against a velvet black sky.

1999 C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek Next Generation: Dyson Sphere vi. 108 The off-center star swelled to a screenscape of fiery prominences and magnetic trenches.

3. The fact or condition of being physically prominent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun]

projecture1563

jutting1565

project1596

juttying1611

prominence1611

excursiona1626

extancy1644

outjetty1650

projection1664

projecting1726

jetting1754

saliency1834

salience1849

protrusion1853

prominency1871

pout1880–4

out-thrust1955

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Prominence, a prominence; a standing, iutting, or strouting, out.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvi. 307/1 What Princely Beautie Her fair Nose commended, Whose Alabaster Prominence doth by Its situation gain that Majesty.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick 95 The Effects..of the Elemental Juices in our Constitution; as the Prominence of Mr. Lobb's Belly is known to be.

1712 R. Steele Tender Husband i. 103 Her Lips have that certain Prominence, that swelling Softness, that they invite to a Pressure.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. v. 30 He passed week after week in clambering the mountains,..but found all the summits inaccessible by their prominence.

1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. xi. 236 In the rest of his face..a kind of bloated prominence, or rather burliness.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 61 Hiding by its prominence everything that might exist behind it.

1951 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 138 The long-spined flathead has received its name from the prominence of a preopercular spine on each side of the head.

1996 A. Jones All she Wanted ii. xiv. 64 Two possible sex change operations—phalloplasty, the creation of a penis, or genitoplasty, which maximizes the prominence of the clitoris.

†4.

a. Any conspicuous or salient point or matter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > outstanding

jewel in the crown1615

jewel1673

prominence1826

salient point1841

highlight1850

high spot1894

salient1936

1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 467 These are prominences seized by his whole audience.

1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xix. 330 He bore down with instinctive sagacity on the prominences of his subject.

1845 S. Judd Margaret iii. 436 She is not constrained by those unnatural prominences which..occur everywhere in the Bible.

b. Journalists' slang. A prominent person. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is outstanding

prominent1608

prominence1887

standout1915

monster1968

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 5/2 All the prominences—aristocrats, musicians, men of letters,..&c.—sat down to a sumptuous collation.

1891 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 25 Apr. 1/6 The presidential party will be taken over on a special boat, something that has never been done before for any..traveling group of prominences.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prominence
释义	prominencen. Brit. /ˈprɒmᵻnəns/, U.S. /ˈprɑmən(ə)ns/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōminentia. Etymology: < classical Latin prōminentia fact or quality of jutting out, projection, in post-classical Latin also distinction, excellence (1235 in a British source) < prōminent- , prōminēns prominent adj. + -ia -ia suffix¹: see -ence suffix. Compare Middle French, French prominence (a1590; subsequently from the 19th cent.), French proéminence (1755 in sense 2, 1798 in sense 1), Italian prominenza (1598). Compare earlier prominent adj. and later prominent n. Compare also prominency n. 1. a. The quality or state of being conspicuous; notoriety, eminence, fame; superiority, distinction in a particular field. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > outstandingness or prominence prominence1533 prominency1650 markedness1846 1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. I.1.^v A laye man promoted to suche prominence by hys graces goodnes. 1715 R. Steele Lover No. 33. 188 The Regularity, Symmetry, Boldness and Prominence of the Figures are not to be described. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 492 The prophet thereby gives prominence to the seeming contradiction. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 Luther and Calvin..brought into splendid prominence their new ideas of moral order. 1907 Daily Chron. 16 May 3/5 The box-office value of every artist of prominence. 1940 E. Wilson To Finland Station ii. x. 165 Weitling became a member and presently emerged into prominence as the most important German leader of the working class. 1988 E. Young-Bruehl Anna Freud iv. 157 Within this group, Wilhelm Reich's rise to prominence was the most swift. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory ix. 889 But other trends, despite their prominence, have never generated even a plausible hypothesis of biomechanical advantage. b. Phonetics. The degree to which a sound or syllable stands out from its phonetic environment; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > prominence prominence1892 1892 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 239 The first [syllable] of the two, being accented, imparts accentual stress and prominence to its own part of the consonant. 1929 I. C. Ward Phonetics of English xiv. 135 The effect of prominence is produced by the very intimate combination of length, stress, pitch, and inherent sonority of sounds. 1950 D. Jones Phoneme 144 It is a natural tendency of English people and speakers of other stress languages to attribute all prominences to stress alone. 1973 Word 1970 26 62 Not every syllable given accentual prominence in the sentence is a rhythmic accent with temporal prominence. 1996 Language 72 328 The relevant prominence rules are: PrR7: A postpausal heavy syllable followed by a syllable which is itself followed by a stressed one is prominent. 2. a. A prominent thing; a projection, a protuberance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part hornc1275 outshooting1310 nosec1400 startc1400 spout1412 snouta1425 outbearingc1425 outstanding?c1425 relish1428 jeta1500 rising1525 shoulder1545 jutting1565 outshootc1565 prominence1578 forecast1580 projection1592 sprout1598 eye1600 shooting forth1601 lip1608 juttying1611 prominent?1611 eminence1615 butting1625 excursiona1626 elbow1626 protrusion1646 jettinga1652 outjetting1652 prominency1654 eminency1668 nouch1688 issuanta1690 out-butting1730 outjet1730 out-jutting1730 flange1735 nosing1773 process1775 jut1787 projecture1803 nozzle1804 saliency1831 ajutment1834 salience1837 out-thrust1842 emphasis1885 cleat1887 outjut1893 pseudopodiuma1902 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 8^v Neither not elegantly hath nature erected a Prominence, from that hole, whereby ye brayne is deriued into the spinall marey. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Prominentia,... Also a penthouse, a prominence, by which word the Anatomists vnderstand what portion soeuer doth notably surmount the parts circumiacent in thicknes. 1638 A. Read Man. Anat. v. vii. 546 It hath also two long cavities for the receiving of the two prominences of the thigh bone. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Prominences, bunchings forth, those parts that notably shew themselves above the rest, as a hill in a plain. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 319 The Precipices were surprisingly variegated with Apices, Prominences, [etc.]. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §81 The lower end of the shores stepping against some hole or prominence of the rock. 1846 G. N. Wright Cream Sci. Knowl. 61 The art of bronzing consists in painting the substance to be bronzed of a dark-green colour, and then rubbing the prominences with bronze-coloured dust. 1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. vii. 154 Descending into the hollows and mounting over the prominences of the rock. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 14 Oct. 8/2 Reflection of the sternomastoid from the mastoid prominence downward..makes the transverse process of the atlas easily identifiable. 1995 Sci. Amer. Jan. 42/1 The Labrador-Greenland prominence of Laurentia might have originated within the recess in the South American margin between Chile and southern Peru. b. Astronomy. A major upward eruption of incandescent gas in the sun's corona, classified as either active (short-lived and with a rapidly changing structure) or quiescent (long-lived) (also solar prominence); a similar phenomenon on another star.At first also called a protuberance (protuberance n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar activity > [noun] > solar prominence streamer1697 solar prominence1852 sun pillar1853 filamenta1869 solar protuberance1869 plume1885 panache1886 1852 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 52 210 After the disappearance of the last direct rays of the sun behind the margin of the moon,..rose-shaped prominences from two to three minutes in height, dart, as it were, from the circumference of our satellite. 1866 Sci. Amer. 30 June 217/2 The appearance in the photographs of the solar eclipse of 1860 of solar prominences invisible to the human eye. 1903 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics 118 Professor Hale's daylight photographs of prominence-spectra. 1940 G. Gamow Birth & Death of Sun i. 8 The features of solar activity most familiar to the general public are the so-called sunspots..and solar prominences, the eruptions of hot and luminous gases that sometimes rise to a height of hundreds of thousands of kilometres above the Sun's surface. 1981 S. Mitton Daytime Star ix. 139 Prominences are usually photographed at the limb of the Sun, where they stand out as flame-like structures against a velvet black sky. 1999 C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek Next Generation: Dyson Sphere vi. 108 The off-center star swelled to a screenscape of fiery prominences and magnetic trenches. 3. The fact or condition of being physically prominent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] projecture1563 jutting1565 project1596 juttying1611 prominence1611 excursiona1626 extancy1644 outjetty1650 projection1664 projecting1726 jetting1754 saliency1834 salience1849 protrusion1853 prominency1871 pout1880–4 out-thrust1955 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Prominence, a prominence; a standing, iutting, or strouting, out. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvi. 307/1 What Princely Beautie Her fair Nose commended, Whose Alabaster Prominence doth by Its situation gain that Majesty. 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick 95 The Effects..of the Elemental Juices in our Constitution; as the Prominence of Mr. Lobb's Belly is known to be. 1712 R. Steele Tender Husband i. 103 Her Lips have that certain Prominence, that swelling Softness, that they invite to a Pressure. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. v. 30 He passed week after week in clambering the mountains,..but found all the summits inaccessible by their prominence. 1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. xi. 236 In the rest of his face..a kind of bloated prominence, or rather burliness. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 61 Hiding by its prominence everything that might exist behind it. 1951 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 138 The long-spined flathead has received its name from the prominence of a preopercular spine on each side of the head. 1996 A. Jones All she Wanted ii. xiv. 64 Two possible sex change operations—phalloplasty, the creation of a penis, or genitoplasty, which maximizes the prominence of the clitoris. †4. a. Any conspicuous or salient point or matter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > outstanding jewel in the crown1615 jewel1673 prominence1826 salient point1841 highlight1850 high spot1894 salient1936 1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 467 These are prominences seized by his whole audience. 1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xix. 330 He bore down with instinctive sagacity on the prominences of his subject. 1845 S. Judd Margaret iii. 436 She is not constrained by those unnatural prominences which..occur everywhere in the Bible. b. Journalists' slang. A prominent person. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is outstanding prominent1608 prominence1887 standout1915 monster1968 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 5/2 All the prominences—aristocrats, musicians, men of letters,..&c.—sat down to a sumptuous collation. 1891 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 25 Apr. 1/6 The presidential party will be taken over on a special boat, something that has never been done before for any..traveling group of prominences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prominencev. Brit. /ˈprɒmᵻnəns/, U.S. /ˈprɑmən(ə)ns/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prominence n. Etymology: < prominence n. transitive. To bring into prominence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > represent as important endear1620 prominence1897 1897 T. R. Williams Serm. on ‘Just as I am’ 4 Jesus emphasized and prominenced in one life and death what God is ever doing. 1944 Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 18 Dec. 1/6 Tokyo newspapers had ‘editorially prominenced’ the new landings. 1947 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 21 July 8/1 (heading) Charge West Indian growers get raw deal prominenced in British press. 1993 R. Porter in A. Wear et al. Doctors & Ethics ix. 254 Other influential prescriptions for guiding medical practice were being formulated.., prominencing not the enlightened self-interest of the profession, but higher sets of values. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1533v.1897
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prominencen.

prominencev.